City Gospel Mission

Recovering addict Mark Hudson looks back on the day when alcohol controlled his life. "I was merely existing. For the previous four years I was just getting up everyday going to work, coming home, no routine. I wasn't giving back. I was just taking."

City Gospel Mission, 3CDC and Strategies to End Homelessness officially kicked off construction of the City Gospel Mission Campus Thursday morning. The new campus at 1805 Dalton Avenue is part of the five-facility system of Cincinnati's Homeless to Homes Plan. It will provide 74 emergency beds and 36 transitional housing beds.

"We'll have day service programs, case management, recreation and three meals a day," said City Gospel Mission President Roger Howell. "Our other facility will have the Lord's Gym, which is recreation and working out, getting your body back in shape."

The Ohio Supreme Court has refused to hear a case that will allow the City Gospel Mission to relocate its facility to Queensgate. The homeless shelter is planning to move from Over-the-Rhine to property located on Dalton Avenue.